Example: Basic usage
<template>
<div>
<b-table striped hover :items="items"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' },
{ age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Items (record data)
items
is the table data in array format, where each record (row) data are keyed objects. Example format:
const items = [
{ age: 32, first_name: 'Cyndi' },
{ age: 27, first_name: 'Havij' },
{ age: 42, first_name: 'Robert' }
]
<b-table>
automatically samples the first row to extract field names (the keys in the record data). Field names are automatically "humanized" by converting kebab-case
, snake_case
, and camelCase
to individual words and capitalizes each word. Example conversions:
first_name
becomes First Name
last-name
becomes Last Name
age
becomes Age
YEAR
remains YEAR
isActive
becomes Is Active
These titles will be displayed in the table header, in the order they appear in the first record of data. See the Fields section below for customizing how field headings appear.
Note: Field order is not guaranteed. Fields will typically appear in the order they were defined in the first row, but this may not always be the case depending on the version of browser in use. See section Fields (column definitions) below to see how to guarantee the order of fields, and to override the headings generated.
Record data may also have additional special reserved name keys for colorizing rows and individual cells (variants), and for triggering additional row detail. The supported optional item record modifier properties (make sure your field keys do not conflict with these names):
Property | Type | Description |
_cellVariants | Object | Bootstrap contextual state applied to individual cells. Keyed by field (See the Color Variants for supported values). These variants map to classes table-${variant} or bg-${variant} (when the dark prop is set). |
_rowVariant | String | Bootstrap contextual state applied to the entire row (See the Color Variants for supported values). These variants map to classes table-${variant} or bg-${variant} (when the dark prop is set) |
_showDetails | Boolean | Used to trigger the display of the row-details scoped slot. See section Row details support below for additional information |
Example: Using variants for table cells
<template>
<div>
<b-table hover :items="items"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{
age: 89,
first_name: 'Geneva',
last_name: 'Wilson',
_rowVariant: 'danger'
},
{
age: 40,
first_name: 'Thor',
last_name: 'MacDonald',
_cellVariants: { age: 'info', first_name: 'warning' }
},
{ age: 29, first_name: 'Dick', last_name: 'Dunlap' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
items
can also be a reference to a provider function, which returns an Array
of items data. Provider functions can also be asynchronous:
- By returning
null
(or undefined
) and calling a callback, when the data is ready, with the data array as the only argument to the callback, - By returning a
Promise
that resolves to an array.
See the "Using Items Provider functions" section below for more details.
Table item notes and warnings
- Avoid manipulating record data in place, as changes to the underlying items data will cause either the row or entire table to be re-rendered. See Primary Key, below, for ways to minimize Vue's re-rendering of rows.
items
array records should be a simple object and must avoid placing data that may have circular references in the values within a row. <b-table>
serializes the row data into strings for sorting and filtering, and circular references will cause stack overflows to occur and your app to crash!
Fields (column definitions)
The fields
prop is used to customize the table columns headings, and in which order the columns of data are displayed. The field object keys (i.e. age
or first_name
as shown below) are used to extract the value from each item (record) row, and to provide additional features such as enabling sorting on the column, etc.
Fields can be provided as a simple array or an array of objects. Internally the fields data will be normalized into the array of objects format. Events or slots that include the column field
data will be in the normalized field object format (array of objects for fields
, or an object for an individual field
).
Fields as a simple array
Fields can be a simple array, for defining the order of the columns, and which columns to display:
Example: Using array
fields definition
<template>
<div>
<b-table striped hover :items="items" :fields="fields"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: ['first_name', 'last_name', 'age'],
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ isActive: false, age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Fields as an array of objects
Fields can be a an array of objects, providing additional control over the fields (such as sorting, formatting, etc). Only columns (keys) that appear in the fields array will be shown:
Example: Using array of objects fields definition
<template>
<div>
<b-table striped hover :items="items" :fields="fields"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: [
{
key: 'last_name',
sortable: true
},
{
key: 'first_name',
sortable: false
},
{
key: 'age',
label: 'Person age',
sortable: true,
variant: 'danger'
}
],
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ isActive: false, age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Field definition reference
The following field properties are recognized:
Property | Type | Description |
key | String | The key for selecting data from the record in the items array. Required when setting the fields via an array of objects. The key is also used for generating the custom data rendering and custom header and footer slot names. |
label | String | Appears in the columns table header (and footer if foot-clone is set). Defaults to the field's key (in humanized format) if not provided. It's possible to use empty labels by assigning an empty string "" but be sure you also set headerTitle to provide non-sighted users a hint about the column contents. |
headerTitle | String | Text to place on the fields header <th> attribute title . Defaults to no title attribute. |
headerAbbr | String | Text to place on the fields header <th> attribute abbr . Set this to the unabbreviated version of the label (or title) if label (or title) is an abbreviation. Defaults to no abbr attribute. |
class | String or Array | Class name (or array of class names) to add to <th> and <td> in the column. |
formatter | String or Function | A formatter callback function or name of a method in your component, can be used instead of (or in conjunction with) scoped field slots. The formatter will be called with the syntax formatter(value, key, item) . Refer to Custom Data Rendering for more details. |
sortable | Boolean | Enable sorting on this column. Refer to the Sorting Section for more details. |
sortDirection | String | Set the initial sort direction on this column when it becomes sorted. Refer to the Change initial sort direction Section for more details. |
sortByFormatted | Boolean or Function | Sort the column by the result of the field's formatter callback function when set to true . Default is false . Boolean has no effect if the field does not have a formatter . Optionally accepts a formatter function reference to format the value for sorting purposes only. Refer to the Sorting Section for more details. |
filterByFormatted | Boolean or Function | Filter the column by the result of the field's formatter callback function when set to true . Default is false . Boolean has no effect if the field does not have a formatter . Optionally accepts a formatter function reference to format the value for filtering purposes only. Refer to the Filtering section for more details. |
tdClass | String or Array or Function | Class name (or array of class names) to add to <tbody> data <td> cells in the column. If custom classes per cell are required, a callback function can be specified instead. The function will be called as tdClass(value, key, item) and it must return an Array or String . |
thClass | String or Array | Class name (or array of class names) to add to this field's <thead> /<tfoot> heading <th> cell. |
thStyle | Object | JavaScript object representing CSS styles you would like to apply to the table <thead> /<tfoot> field <th> . |
variant | String | Apply contextual class to all the <th> and <td> in the column - active , success , info , warning , danger . These variants map to classes thead-${variant} (in the header), table-${variant} (in the body), or bg-${variant} (when the prop dark is set). |
tdAttr | Object or Function | JavaScript object representing additional attributes to apply to the <tbody> field <td> cell. If custom attributes per cell are required, a callback function can be specified instead. The function will be called as tdAttr(value, key, item) and it must return an Object . |
thAttr | Object or Function | JavaScript object representing additional attributes to apply to the field's <thead> /<tfoot> heading <th> cell. If the field's isRowHeader is set to true , the attributes will also apply to the <tbody> field <th> cell. If custom attributes per cell are required, a callback function can be specified instead. The function will be called as thAttr(value, key, item, type) and it must return an Object . |
isRowHeader | Boolean | When set to true , the field's item data cell will be rendered with <th> rather than the default of <td> . |
stickyColumn | Boolean | When set to true , and the table in responsive mode or has sticky headers, will cause the column to become fixed to the left when the table's horizontal scrollbar is scrolled. See Sticky columns for more details |
Notes:
- Field properties, if not present, default to
null
(falsey) unless otherwise stated above. class
, thClass
, tdClass
etc. will not work with classes that are defined in scoped CSS, unless you are using VueLoader's Deep selector. - For information on the syntax supported by
thStyle
, see Class and Style Bindings in the Vue.js guide. - Any additional properties added to the field definition objects will be left intact - so you can access them via the named scoped slots for custom data, header, and footer rendering.
For information and usage about scoped slots and formatters, refer to the Custom Data Rendering section below.
Feel free to mix and match simple array and object array together:
const fields = [
{ key: 'first_name', label: 'First' },
{ key: 'last_name', label: 'Last' },
'age',
'sex'
]
Primary key
<b-table>
provides an additional prop primary-key
, which you can use to identify the name of the field key that uniquely identifies the row.
The value specified by the primary column key must be either a string
or number
, and must be unique across all rows in the table.
The primary key column does not need to appear in the displayed fields.
Table row ID generation
When provided, the primary-key
will generate a unique ID for each item row <tr>
element. The ID will be in the format of {table-id}__row_{primary-key-value}
, where {table-id}
is the unique ID of the <b-table>
and {primary-key-value}
is the value of the item's field value for the field specified by primary-key
.
Table render and transition optimization
The primary-key
is also used by <b-table>
to help Vue optimize the rendering of table rows. Internally, the value of the field key specified by the primary-key
prop is used as the Vue :key
value for each rendered item row <tr>
element.
If you are seeing rendering issue (i.e. tooltips hiding or unexpected subcomponent re-usage when item data changes or data is sorted/filtered/edited) or table row transitions are not working, setting the primary-key
prop (if you have a unique identifier per row) can alleviate these issues.
Specifying the primary-key
column is handy if you are using 3rd party table transitions or drag and drop plugins, as they rely on having a consistent and unique per row :key
value.
If primary-key
is not provided, <b-table>
will auto-generate keys based on the displayed row's index number (i.e. position in the displayed table rows). This may cause GUI issues such as sub components/elements that are rendering with previous results (i.e. being re-used by Vue's render patch optimization routines). Specifying a primary-key
column can alleviate this issue (or you can place a unique :key
on your element/components in your custom formatted field slots).
Refer to the Table body transition support section for additional details.
Table style options
Table styling
<b-table>
provides several props to alter the style of the table:
prop | Type | Description |
striped | Boolean | Add zebra-striping to the table rows within the <tbody> |
bordered | Boolean | For borders on all sides of the table and cells. |
borderless | Boolean | removes inner borders from table. |
outlined | Boolean | For a thin border on all sides of the table. Has no effect if bordered is set. |
small | Boolean | To make tables more compact by cutting cell padding in half. |
hover | Boolean | To enable a hover highlighting state on table rows within a <tbody> |
dark | Boolean | Invert the colors — with light text on dark backgrounds (equivalent to Bootstrap v4 class .table-dark ) |
fixed | Boolean | Generate a table with equal fixed-width columns (table-layout: fixed; ) |
responsive | Boolean or String | Generate a responsive table to make it scroll horizontally. Set to true for an always responsive table, or set it to one of the breakpoints 'sm' , 'md' , 'lg' , or 'xl' to make the table responsive (horizontally scroll) only on screens smaller than the breakpoint. See Responsive tables below for details. |
sticky-header | Boolean or String | Generates a vertically scrollable table with sticky headers. Set to true to enable sticky headers (default table max-height of 300px ), or set it to a string containing a height (with CSS units) to specify a maximum height other than 300px . See the Sticky header section below for details. |
stacked | Boolean or String | Generate a responsive stacked table. Set to true for an always stacked table, or set it to one of the breakpoints 'sm' , 'md' , 'lg' , or 'xl' to make the table visually stacked only on screens smaller than the breakpoint. See Stacked tables below for details. |
caption-top | Boolean | If the table has a caption, and this prop is set to true , the caption will be visually placed above the table. If false (the default), the caption will be visually placed below the table. |
table-variant | String | Give the table an overall theme color variant. |
head-variant | String | Use 'light' or 'dark' to make table header appear light or dark gray, respectively |
foot-variant | String | Use 'light' or 'dark' to make table footer appear light or dark gray, respectively. If not set, head-variant will be used. Has no effect if foot-clone is not set |
foot-clone | Boolean | Turns on the table footer, and defaults with the same contents a the table header |
no-footer-sorting | Boolean | When foot-clone is true and the table is sortable, disables the sorting icons and click behaviour on the footer heading cells. Refer to the Sorting section below for more details. |
no-border-collapse | Boolean | Disables the default of collapsing of the table borders. Mainly for use with sticky headers and/or sticky columns. Will cause the appearance of double borders in some situations. |
Note: table style options fixed
, stacked
, caption-top
, no-border-collapse
, sticky headers, sticky columns, and the table sorting feature, all require BootstrapVue's custom CSS.
Example: Basic table styles
<template>
<div>
<b-form-group label="Table Options" label-cols-lg="2">
<b-form-checkbox v-model="striped" inline>Striped</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="bordered" inline>Bordered</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="borderless" inline>Borderless</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="outlined" inline>Outlined</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="small" inline>Small</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="hover" inline>Hover</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="dark" inline>Dark</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="fixed" inline>Fixed</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="footClone" inline>Foot Clone</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="noCollapse" inline>No border collapse</b-form-checkbox>
</b-form-group>
<b-form-group label="Head Variant" label-cols-lg="2">
<b-form-radio-group v-model="headVariant" class="mt-lg-2">
<b-form-radio :value="null" inline>None</b-form-radio>
<b-form-radio value="light" inline>Light</b-form-radio>
<b-form-radio value="dark" inline>Dark</b-form-radio>
</b-form-radio-group>
</b-form-group>
<b-form-group label="Table Variant" label-for="table-style-variant" label-cols-lg="2">
<b-form-select
v-model="tableVariant"
:options="tableVariants"
id="table-style-variant"
>
<template v-slot:first>
<option value="">-- None --</option>
</template>
</b-form-select>
</b-form-group>
<b-table
:striped="striped"
:bordered="bordered"
:borderless="borderless"
:outlined="outlined"
:small="small"
:hover="hover"
:dark="dark"
:fixed="fixed"
:foot-clone="footClone"
:no-border-collapse="noCollapse"
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
:head-variant="headVariant"
:table-variant="tableVariant"
></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: ['first_name', 'last_name', 'age'],
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' }
],
tableVariants: [
'primary',
'secondary',
'info',
'danger',
'warning',
'success',
'light',
'dark'
],
striped: false,
bordered: false,
borderless: false,
outlined: false,
small: false,
hover: false,
dark: false,
fixed: false,
footClone: false,
headVariant: null,
tableVariant: '',
noCollapse: false
}
}
}
</script>
Row styling and attributes
You can also style every row using the tbody-tr-class
prop, and optionally supply additional attributes via the tbody-tr-attr
prop:
Property | Type | Description |
tbody-tr-class | String, Array or Function | Classes to be applied to every row on the table. If a function is given, it will be called as tbodyTrClass( item, type ) and it may return an Array , Object or String . |
tbody-tr-attr | Object or Function | Attributes to be applied to every row on the table. If a function is given, it will be called as tbodyTrAttr( item, type ) and it must return an Object . |
When passing a function reference to tbody-tr-class
or tbody-tr-attr
, the function's arguments will be as follows:
item
- The item record data associated with the row. For rows that are not associated with an item record, this value will be null
or undefined
type
- The type of row being rendered. 'row'
for an item row, 'row-details'
for an item details row, 'row-top'
for the fixed row top slot, 'row-bottom'
for the fixed row bottom slot, or 'table-busy'
for the table busy slot.
Example: Basic row styles
<template>
<div>
<b-table :items="items" :fields="fields" :tbody-tr-class="rowClass"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: ['first_name', 'last_name', 'age'],
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald', status: 'awesome' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' }
]
}
},
methods: {
rowClass(item, type) {
if (!item || type !== 'row') return
if (item.status === 'awesome') return 'table-success'
}
}
}
</script>
Responsive tables
Responsive tables allow tables to be scrolled horizontally with ease. Make any table responsive across all viewports by setting the prop responsive
to true
. Or, pick a maximum breakpoint with which to have a responsive table up to by setting the prop responsive
to one of the breakpoint values: sm
, md
, lg
, or xl
.
Example: Always responsive table
<template>
<div>
<b-table responsive :items="items"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{
heading1: 'table cell',
heading2: 'table cell',
heading3: 'table cell',
heading4: 'table cell',
heading5: 'table cell',
heading6: 'table cell',
heading7: 'table cell',
heading8: 'table cell',
heading9: 'table cell',
heading10: 'table cell',
heading11: 'table cell',
heading12: 'table cell'
},
{
heading1: 'table cell',
heading2: 'table cell',
heading3: 'table cell',
heading4: 'table cell',
heading5: 'table cell',
heading6: 'table cell',
heading7: 'table cell',
heading8: 'table cell',
heading9: 'table cell',
heading10: 'table cell',
heading11: 'table cell',
heading12: 'table cell'
},
{
heading1: 'table cell',
heading2: 'table cell',
heading3: 'table cell',
heading4: 'table cell',
heading5: 'table cell',
heading6: 'table cell',
heading7: 'table cell',
heading8: 'table cell',
heading9: 'table cell',
heading10: 'table cell',
heading11: 'table cell',
heading12: 'table cell'
}
]
}
}
}
</script>
Responsive table notes:
- Possible vertical clipping/truncation. Responsive tables make use of
overflow-y: hidden
, which clips off any content that goes beyond the bottom or top edges of the table. In particular, this may clip off dropdown menus and other third-party widgets. - Using props
responsive
and fixed
together will not work as expected. Fixed table layout uses the first row (table header in this case) to compute the width required by each column (and the overall table width) to fit within the width of the parent container — without taking cells in the <tbody>
into consideration — resulting in table that may not be responsive. To get around this limitation, you would need to specify widths for the columns (or certain columns) via one of the following methods: - Use
<col>
elements within the table-colgroup
slot that have widths set (e.g. <col style="width: 20rem">
), or - Wrap header cells in
<div>
elements, via the use of custom header rendering, which have a minimum width set on them, or - Use the
thStyle
property of the field definition object to set a width for the column(s), or - Use custom CSS to define classes to apply to the columns to set widths, via the
thClass
or class
properties of the field definition object.
Stacked tables
An alternative to responsive tables, BootstrapVue includes the stacked table option (using custom SCSS/CSS), which allow tables to be rendered in a visually stacked format. Make any table stacked across all viewports by setting the prop stacked
to true
. Or, alternatively, set a breakpoint at which the table will return to normal table format by setting the prop stacked
to one of the breakpoint values 'sm'
, 'md'
, 'lg'
, or 'xl'
.
Column header labels will be rendered to the left of each field value using a CSS ::before
pseudo element, with a width of 40%.
The prop stacked
takes precedence over the responsive
prop, sticky-header
props, and the stickyColumn
field definition property.
Example: Always stacked table
<template>
<div>
<b-table stacked :items="items"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Note: When the table is visually stacked:
- The table header (and table footer) will be hidden.
- Custom rendered header slots will not be shown, rather, the fields'
label
will be used. - The table cannot be sorted by clicking the rendered field labels. You will need to provide an external control to select the field to sort by and the sort direction. See the Sorting section below for sorting control information, as well as the complete example at the bottom of this page for an example of controlling sorting via the use of form controls.
- The slots
top-row
and bottom-row
will be hidden when visually stacked. - The table caption, if provided, will always appear at the top of the table when visually stacked.
- In an always stacked table, the table header and footer, and the fixed top and bottom row slots will not be rendered.
BootstrapVue's custom CSS is required in order to support stacked tables.
Table caption
Add an optional caption to your table via the prop caption
or the named slot table-caption
(the slot takes precedence over the prop). The default Bootstrap v4 styling places the caption at the bottom of the table:
<template>
<div>
<b-table :items="items" :fields="fields">
<template v-slot:table-caption>This is a table caption.</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: ['first_name', 'last_name', 'age'],
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
You can have the caption placed at the top of the table by setting the caption-top
prop to true
:
<template>
<div>
<b-table :items="items" :fields="fields" caption-top>
<template v-slot:table-caption>This is a table caption at the top.</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: ['first_name', 'last_name', 'age'],
items: [
{ age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
You can also use custom CSS to control the caption positioning.
Table colgroup
Use the named slot table-colgroup
to specify <colgroup>
and <col>
elements for optional grouping and styling of table columns. Note the styles available via <col>
elements are limited. Refer to MDN for details and usage of <colgroup>
Slot table-colgroup
can be optionally scoped, receiving an object with the following properties:
Property | Type | Description |
columns | Number | The number of columns in the rendered table |
fields | Array | Array of field definition objects (normalized to the array of objects format) |
When provided, the content of the table-colgroup
slot will be placed inside of a <colgroup>
element. there is no need to provide your own outer <colgroup>
element. When a series of table columns should be grouped for assistive technology reasons (for conveying logical column associations, use a <col span="#">
element (with #
replaced with the number of grouped columns) to group the series of columns.
Tip: In some situations when trying to set column widths via style
or class
on the <col>
element, you may find that placing the table in fixed
header width (table fixed layout mode) mode, combined with responsive
(horizontal scrolling) mode will help, although you will need to have explicit widths, or minimum widths, via a style or a class for each column's respective <col>
element. For example:
<b-table fixed responsive :items="items" :fields="fields" ... >
<template v-slot:table-colgroup="scope">
<col
v-for="field in scope.fields"
:key="field.key"
:style="{ width: field.key === 'foo' ? '120px' : '180px' }"
>
</template>
</b-table>
Table busy state
<b-table>
provides a busy
prop that will flag the table as busy, which you can set to true
just before you update your items, and then set it to false
once you have your items. When in the busy state, the table will have the attribute aria-busy="true"
.
During the busy state, the table will be rendered in a "muted" look (opacity: 0.6
), using the following custom CSS:
table.b-table[aria-busy='true'] {
opacity: 0.6;
}
You can override this styling using your own CSS.
You may optionally provide a table-busy
slot to show a custom loading message or spinner whenever the table's busy state is true
. The slot will be placed in a <tr>
element with class b-table-busy-slot
, which has one single <td>
with a colspan
set to the number of fields.
Example of table-busy
slot usage:
<template>
<div>
<b-button @click="toggleBusy">Toggle Busy State</b-button>
<b-table :items="items" :busy="isBusy" class="mt-3" outlined>
<template v-slot:table-busy>
<div class="text-center text-danger my-2">
<b-spinner class="align-middle"></b-spinner>
<strong>Loading...</strong>
</div>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
isBusy: false,
items: [
{ first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'MacDonald', age: 40 },
{ first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw', age: 21 },
{ first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson', age: 89 },
{ first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney', age: 38 }
]
}
},
methods: {
toggleBusy() {
this.isBusy = !this.isBusy
}
}
}
</script>
Also see the Using Items Provider Functions below for additional information on the busy
state.
Notes:
- All click related and hover events, and sort-changed events will not be emitted when the table is in the
busy
state. - Busy styling and slot are not available in the
<b-table-lite>
component.
Custom data rendering
Custom rendering for each data field in a row is possible using either scoped slots or a formatter callback function, or a combination of both.
Scoped field slots
Scoped field slots give you greater control over how the record data appears. You can use scoped slots to provided custom rendering for a particular field. If you want to add an extra field which does not exist in the records, just add it to the fields
array, and then reference the field(s) in the scoped slot(s). Scoped field slots use the following naming syntax: 'cell(' + field key + ')'
.
You can use the default fall-back scoped slot 'cell()'
to format any cells that do not have an explicit scoped slot provided.
Example: Custom data rendering with scoped slots
<template>
<div>
<b-table small :fields="fields" :items="items" responsive="sm">
<template v-slot:cell(index)="data">
{{ data.index + 1 }}
</template>
<template v-slot:cell(name)="data">
<b class="text-info">{{ data.value.last.toUpperCase() }}</b>, <b>{{ data.value.first }}</b>
</template>
<template v-slot:cell(nameage)="data">
{{ data.item.name.first }} is {{ data.item.age }} years old
</template>
<template v-slot:cell()="data">
<i>{{ data.value }}</i>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: [
'index',
{ key: 'name', label: 'Full Name' },
'age',
'sex',
{ key: 'nameage', label: 'First name and age' }
],
items: [
{ name: { first: 'John', last: 'Doe' }, sex: 'Male', age: 42 },
{ name: { first: 'Jane', last: 'Doe' }, sex: 'Female', age: 36 },
{ name: { first: 'Rubin', last: 'Kincade' }, sex: 'Male', age: 73 },
{ name: { first: 'Shirley', last: 'Partridge' }, sex: 'Female', age: 62 }
]
}
}
}
</script>
The slot's scope variable (data
in the above sample) will have the following properties:
Property | Type | Description |
index | Number | The row number (indexed from zero) relative to the displayed rows |
item | Object | The entire raw record data (i.e. items[index] ) for this row (before any formatter is applied) |
value | Any | The value for this key in the record (null or undefined if a virtual column), or the output of the field's formatter function |
unformatted | Any | The raw value for this key in the item record (null or undefined if a virtual column), before being passed to the field's formatter function |
field | Object | The field's normalized field definition object |
detailsShowing | Boolean | Will be true if the row's row-details scoped slot is visible. See section Row details support below for additional information |
toggleDetails | Function | Can be called to toggle the visibility of the rows row-details scoped slot. See section Row details support below for additional information |
rowSelected | Boolean | Will be true if the row has been selected. See section Row select support for additional information |
selectRow | Function | When called, selects the current row. See section Row select support for additional information |
unselectRow | Function | When called, unselects the current row. See section Row select support for additional information |
Notes:
index
will not always be the actual row's index number, as it is computed after filtering, sorting and pagination have been applied to the original table data. The index
value will refer to the displayed row number. This number will align with the indexes from the optional v-model
bound variable. - When using the new Vue 2.6
v-slot
syntax, note that slot names cannot contain spaces, and when using in-browser DOM templates the slot names will always be lower cased. To get around this, you can pass the slot name using Vue's dynamic slot names
Displaying raw HTML
By default b-table
escapes HTML tags in items data and results of formatter functions, if you need to display raw HTML code in b-table
, you should use v-html
directive on an element in a in scoped field slot.
<template>
<div>
<b-table :items="items">
<template v-slot:cell(html)="data">
<span v-html="data.value"></span>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{
text: 'This is <i>escaped</i> content',
html: 'This is <i>raw <strong>HTML</strong></i> <span style="color:red">content</span>'
}
]
}
}
}
</script>
Warning: Be cautious of using the v-html
method to display user supplied content, as it may make your application vulnerable to XSS attacks, if you do not first sanitize the user supplied string.
Optionally, you can customize field output by using a formatter callback function. To enable this, the field's formatter
property is used. The value of this property may be String or function reference. In case of a String value, the function must be defined at the parent component's methods. When providing formatter
as a Function
, it must be declared at global scope (window or as global mixin at Vue, or as an anonymous function), unless it has been bound to a this
context.
The callback function accepts three arguments - value
, key
, and item
, and should return the formatted value as a string (HTML strings are not supported)
Example: Custom data rendering with formatter callback function
<template>
<div>
<b-table :fields="fields" :items="items">
<template v-slot:cell(name)="data">
<a :href="`#${data.value.replace(/[^a-z]+/i,'-').toLowerCase()}`">{{ data.value }}</a>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: [
{
key: 'name',
label: 'Full Name',
formatter: 'fullName'
},
'age',
{
key: 'sex',
formatter: value => {
return value.charAt(0).toUpperCase()
}
},
{
key: 'birthYear',
label: 'Calculated Birth Year',
formatter: (value, key, item) => {
return new Date().getFullYear() - item.age
}
}
],
items: [
{ name: { first: 'John', last: 'Doe' }, sex: 'Male', age: 42 },
{ name: { first: 'Jane', last: 'Doe' }, sex: 'Female', age: 36 },
{ name: { first: 'Rubin', last: 'Kincade' }, sex: 'male', age: 73 },
{ name: { first: 'Shirley', last: 'Partridge' }, sex: 'female', age: 62 }
]
}
},
methods: {
fullName(value) {
return `${value.first} ${value.last}`
}
}
}
</script>
It is also possible to provide custom rendering for the tables thead
and tfoot
elements. Note by default the table footer is not rendered unless foot-clone
is set to true
.
Scoped slots for the header and footer cells uses a special naming convention of 'head(<fieldkey>)'
and 'foot(<fieldkey>)'
respectively. if a 'foot(...)'
slot for a field is not provided, but a 'head(...)'
slot is provided, then the footer will use the 'head(...)'
slot content.
You can use a default fall-back scoped slot 'head()'
or 'foot()'
to format any header or footer cells that do not have an explicit scoped slot provided.
<template>
<div>
<b-table :fields="fields" :items="items" foot-clone>
<template v-slot:cell(name)="data">
{{ data.value.first }} {{ data.value.last }}
</template>
<template v-slot:head(name)="data">
<span class="text-info">{{ data.label.toUpperCase() }}</span>
</template>
<template v-slot:foot(name)="data">
<span class="text-danger">{{ data.label }}</span>
</template>
<template v-slot:foot()="data">
<i>{{ data.label }}</i>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: [
{ key: 'name', label: 'Full Name' },
'age',
'sex'
],
items: [
{ name: { first: 'John', last: 'Doe' }, sex: 'Male', age: 42 },
{ name: { first: 'Jane', last: 'Doe' }, sex: 'Female', age: 36 },
{ name: { first: 'Rubin', last: 'Kincade' }, sex: 'Male', age: 73 },
{ name: { first: 'Shirley', last: 'Partridge' }, sex: 'Female', age: 62 }
]
}
}
}
</script>
The slots can be optionally scoped (data
in the above example), and will have the following properties:
Property | Type | Description |
column | String | The fields's key value |
field | Object | the field's object (from the fields prop) |
label | String | The fields label value (also available as data.field.label ) |
selectAllRows | Method | Select all rows (applicable if the table is in selectable mode |
clearSelected | Method | Unselect all rows (applicable if the table is in selectable mode |
When placing inputs, buttons, selects or links within a head(...)
or foot(...)
slot, note that head-clicked
event will not be emitted when the input, select, textarea is clicked (unless they are disabled). head-clicked
will never be emitted when clicking on links or buttons inside the scoped slots (even when disabled)
Notes:
- When using the new Vue 2.6
v-slot
syntax, note that slot names cannot contain spaces, and when using in-browser DOM templates the slot names will always be lower cased. To get around this, you can pass the slot name using Vue's dynamic slot names
If you wish to add additional rows to the header you may do so via the thead-top
slot. This slot is inserted before the header cells row, and is not automatically encapsulated by <tr>..</tr>
tags. It is recommended to use the BootstrapVue table helper components, rather than native browser table child elements.
<template>
<div>
<b-table
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
responsive="sm"
>
<template v-slot:thead-top="data">
<b-tr>
<b-th colspan="2"><span class="sr-only">Name and ID</span></b-th>
<b-th variant="secondary">Type 1</b-th>
<b-th variant="primary" colspan="3">Type 2</b-th>
<b-th variant="danger">Type 3</b-th>
</b-tr>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{ name: 'Stephen Hawking', id: 1, type1: false, type2a: true, type2b: false, type2c: false, type3: false },
{ name: 'Johnny Appleseed', id: 2, type1: false, type2a: true, type2b: true, type2c: false, type3: false },
{ name: 'George Washington', id: 3, type1: false, type2a: false, type2b: false, type2c: false, type3: true },
{ name: 'Albert Einstein', id: 4, type1: true, type2a: false, type2b: false, type2c: true, type3: false },
{ name: 'Isaac Newton', id: 5, type1: true, type2a: true, type2b: false, type2c: true, type3: false },
],
fields: [
'name',
{ key: 'id', label: 'ID' },
{ key: 'type1', label: 'Type 1' },
{ key: 'type2a', label: 'Type 2A' },
{ key: 'type2b', label: 'Type 2B' },
{ key: 'type2c', label: 'Type 2C' },
{ key: 'type3', label: 'Type 3' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Slot thead-top
can be optionally scoped, receiving an object with the following properties:
Property | Type | Description |
columns | Number | The number of columns in the rendered table |
fields | Array | Array of field definition objects (normalized to the array of objects format) |
selectAllRows | Method | Select all rows (applicable if the table is in selectable mode |
clearSelected | Method | Unselect all rows (applicable if the table is in selectable mode |
If you need greater layout control of the content of the <tfoot>
, you can use the optionally scoped slot custom-foot
to provide your own rows and cells. Use BootstrapVue's table helper sub-components <b-tr>
, <b-th>
, and <b-td>
to generate your custom footer layout.
Slot custom-foot
can be optionally scoped, receiving an object with the following properties:
Property | Type | Description |
columns | Number | The number of columns in the rendered table |
fields | Array | Array of field definition objects (normalized to the array of objects format) |
items | Array | Array of the currently displayed items records - after filtering, sorting and pagination |
Notes:
- The
custom-foot
slot will not be rendered if the foot-clone
prop has been set. head-clicked
events are not be emitted when clicking on custom-foot
cells. - Sorting and sorting icons are not available for cells in the
custom-foot
slot. - The custom footer will not be shown when the table is in visually stacked mode.
Custom empty and emptyfiltered rendering via slots
Aside from using empty-text
, empty-filtered-text
, empty-html
, and empty-filtered-html
, it is also possible to provide custom rendering for tables that have no data to display using named slots.
In order for these slots to be shown, the show-empty
attribute must be set and items
must be either falsy or an array of length 0.
<div>
<b-table :fields="fields" :items="items" show-empty>
<template v-slot:empty="scope">
<h4>{{ scope.emptyText }}</h4>
</template>
<template v-slot:emptyfiltered="scope">
<h4>{{ scope.emptyFilteredText }}</h4>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
The slot can optionally be scoped. The slot's scope (scope
in the above example) will have the following properties:
Property | Type | Description |
emptyHtml | String | The empty-html prop |
emptyText | String | The empty-text prop |
emptyFilteredHtml | String | The empty-filtered-html prop |
emptyFilteredText | String | The empty-filtered-text prop |
fields | Array | The fields prop |
items | Array | The items prop. Exposed here to check null vs [] |
Advanced features
Use the sticky-header
prop to enable a vertically scrolling table with headers that remain fixed (sticky) as the table body scrolls. Setting the prop to true
(or no explicit value) will generate a table that has a maximum height of 300px
. To specify a maximum height other than 300px
, set the sticky-header
prop to a valid CSS height (including units), i.e. sticky-header="200px"
. Tables with sticky-header
enabled will also automatically become always responsive horizontally, regardless of the responsive
prop setting, if the table is wider than the available horizontal space.
<template>
<div>
<b-table sticky-header :items="items" head-variant="light"></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' },
{ heading1: 'table cell', heading2: 'table cell', heading3: 'table cell' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Sticky header notes:
- The
sticky-header
prop has no effect if the table has the stacked
prop set. - Sticky header tables are wrapped inside a vertically scrollable
<div>
with a maximum height set. - BootstrapVue's custom CSS is required in order to support
sticky-header
. - Bootstrap v4 uses the CSS style
border-collapse: collapsed
on table elements. This prevents the borders on the sticky header from "sticking" to the header, and hence the borders will scroll when the body scrolls. To get around this issue, set the prop no-border-collapse
on the table (note that this may cause double width borders when using features such as bordered
, etc). - The sticky header feature uses CSS style
position: sticky
to position the headings. Internet Explorer does not support position: sticky
, hence for IE 11 the table headings will scroll with the table body.
Sticky columns
Columns can be made sticky, where they stick to the left of the table when the table has a horizontal scrollbar. To make a column a sticky column, set the stickyColumn
prop in the field's header definition. Sticky columns will only work when the table has either the sticky-header
prop set and/or the responsive
prop is set.
Example: Sticky columns and headers
<template>
<div>
<div class="mb-2">
<b-form-checkbox v-model="stickyHeader" inline>Sticky header</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="noCollapse" inline>No border collapse</b-form-checkbox>
</div>
<b-table
:sticky-header="stickyHeader"
:no-border-collapse="noCollapse"
responsive
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
>
<template v-slot:head(id)="scope">
<div class="text-nowrap">Row ID</div>
</template>
<template v-slot:head()="scope">
<div class="text-nowrap">
Heading {{ scope.label }}
</div>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
stickyHeader: true,
noCollapse: false,
fields: [
{ key: 'id', stickyColumn: true, isRowHeader: true, variant: 'primary' },
'a',
'b',
{ key: 'c', stickyColumn: true, variant: 'info' },
'd',
'e',
'f',
'g',
'h',
'i',
'j',
'k',
'l'
],
items: [
{ id: 1, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 2, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 3, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 4, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 5, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 6, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 7, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 8, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 9, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 },
{ id: 10, a: 0, b: 1, c: 2, d: 3, e: 4, f: 5, g: 6, h: 7, i: 8, j: 9, k: 10, l: 11 }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Sticky column notes:
- Sticky columns has no effect if the table has the
stacked
prop set. - Sticky columns tables require either the
sticky-header
and/or responsive
modes, and are wrapped inside a horizontally scrollable <div>
. - When you have multiple columns that are set as
stickyColumn
, the columns will stack over each other visually, and the left-most sticky columns may "peek" out from under the next sticky column. To get around this behaviour, make sure your latter stickyColumns are the same width or wider than previous sticky columns. - Bootstrap v4 uses the CSS style
border-collapse: collapsed
on table elements. This prevents any borders on the sticky columns from "sticking" to the column, and hence those borders will scroll when the body scrolls. To get around this issue, set the prop no-border-collapse
on the table (note that this may cause double width borders when using features such as bordered
, etc). - BootstrapVue's custom CSS is required in order to support sticky columns.
- The sticky column feature uses CSS style
position: sticky
to position the column cells. Internet Explorer does not support position: sticky
, hence for IE 11 the sticky column will scroll with the table body.
Row details support
If you would optionally like to display additional record information (such as columns not specified in the fields definition array), you can use the scoped slot row-details
, in combination with the special item record Boolean property _showDetails
.
If the record has its _showDetails
property set to true
, and a row-details
scoped slot exists, a new row will be shown just below the item, with the rendered contents of the row-details
scoped slot.
In the scoped field slot, you can toggle the visibility of the row's row-details
scoped slot by calling the toggleDetails
function passed to the field's scoped slot variable. You can use the scoped fields slot variable detailsShowing
to determine the visibility of the row-details
slot.
Note: If manipulating the _showDetails
property directly on the item data (i.e. not via the toggleDetails
function reference), the _showDetails
properly must exist in the items data for proper reactive detection of changes to its value. Read more about Vue's reactivity limitations.
Available row-details
scoped variable properties:
Property | Type | Description |
item | Object | The entire row record data object |
index | Number | The current visible row number |
fields | Array | The normalized fields definition array (in the array of objects format) |
toggleDetails | Function | Function to toggle visibility of the row's details slot |
rowSelected | Boolean | Will be true if the row has been selected. See section Row select support for additional information |
selectRow | Function | When called, selects the current row. See section Row select support for additional information |
unselectRow | Function | When called, unselects the current row. See section Row select support for additional information |
Note: the row select related scope properties are only available in <b-table>
.
In the following example, we show two methods of toggling the visibility of the details: one via a button, and one via a checkbox. We also have the third row details defaulting to have details initially showing.
<template>
<div>
<b-table :items="items" :fields="fields" striped responsive="sm">
<template v-slot:cell(show_details)="row">
<b-button size="sm" @click="row.toggleDetails" class="mr-2">
{{ row.detailsShowing ? 'Hide' : 'Show'}} Details
</b-button>
<b-form-checkbox v-model="row.detailsShowing" @change="row.toggleDetails">
Details via check
</b-form-checkbox>
</template>
<template v-slot:row-details="row">
<b-card>
<b-row class="mb-2">
<b-col sm="3" class="text-sm-right"><b>Age:</b></b-col>
<b-col>{{ row.item.age }}</b-col>
</b-row>
<b-row class="mb-2">
<b-col sm="3" class="text-sm-right"><b>Is Active:</b></b-col>
<b-col>{{ row.item.isActive }}</b-col>
</b-row>
<b-button size="sm" @click="row.toggleDetails">Hide Details</b-button>
</b-card>
</template>
</b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
fields: ['first_name', 'last_name', 'show_details'],
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{
isActive: false,
age: 89,
first_name: 'Geneva',
last_name: 'Wilson',
_showDetails: true
},
{ isActive: true, age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Row select support
You can make rows selectable, by using the <b-table>
prop selectable
.
Users can easily change the selecting mode by setting the select-mode
prop.
'multi'
: Each click will select/deselect the row (default mode) 'single'
: Only a single row can be selected at one time 'range'
: Any row clicked is selected, any other deselected. Shift + click selects a range of rows, and Ctrl (or Cmd) + click will toggle the selected row.
When a table is selectable
and the user clicks on a row, <b-table>
will emit the row-selected
event, passing a single argument which is the complete list of selected items. Treat this argument as read-only.
Rows can also be programmatically selected and unselected via the following exposed methods on the <b-table>
instance (i.e. via a reference to the table instance via this.$refs
):
Method | Description |
selectRow(index) | Selects a row with the given index number. |
unselectRow(index) | Unselects a row with the given index number. |
selectAllRows() | Selects all rows in the table, except in single mode in which case only the first row is selected. |
clearSelected() | Unselects all rows. |
isRowSelected(index) | Returns true if the row with the given index is selected, otherwise it returns false . |
Programmatic row selection notes:
index
is the zero-based index of the table's visible rows, after filtering, sorting, and pagination have been applied. - In
single
mode, selectRow(index)
will unselect any previous selected row. - Attempting to
selectRow(index)
or unselectRow(index)
on a non-existent row will be ignored. - The table must be
selectable
for any of these methods to have effect. - You can disable selection of rows via click events by setting the
no-select-on-click
prop. Rows will then only be selectable programmatically.
Row select notes:
- Sorting, filtering, or paginating the table will **clear the active selection**. The
row-selected
event will be emitted with an empty array ([]
) if needed. - When the table is in
selectable
mode, all data item <tr>
elements will be in the document tab sequence (tabindex="0"
) for accessibility reasons, and will have the attribute aria-selected
set to either 'true'
or 'false'
depending on the selected state of the row. - When a table is
selectable
, the table will have the attribute aria-multiselect
set to either 'false'
for single
mode, and 'true'
for either multi
or range
modes.
When a <b-table>
is selectable, it will have class b-table-selectable
and one of the following three classes (depending on which mode is in use) on the <table>
element:
b-table-select-single
b-table-select-multi
b-table-select-range
When at least one row is selected, the class b-table-selecting
will be active on the <table>
element. Rows that are selected rows will have a class of b-table-row-selected
applied to the <tr>
element.
Use the prop selected-variant
to apply a Bootstrap theme color to the selected row(s). Note, due to the order that the table variants are defined in Bootstrap's CSS, any row-variant might take precedence over the selected-variant
. You can set selected-variant
to an empty string if you will be using other means to convey that a row is selected (such as a scoped field slot in the below example).
The selected-variant
can be any of the standard (or custom) Bootstrap base color variants, or the special table active
variant (the default) which takes precedence over any specific row or cell variants.
For accessibility reasons (specifically for color blind users, or users with color contrast issues), it is highly recommended to always provide some other visual means of conveying that a row is selected, such as a virtual column as shown in the example below.
<template>
<div>
<b-form-group label="Selection mode:" label-cols-md="4">
<b-form-select v-model="selectMode" :options="modes" class="mb-3"></b-form-select>
</b-form-group>
<b-table
ref="selectableTable"
selectable
:select-mode="selectMode"
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
@row-selected="onRowSelected"
responsive="sm"
>
<template v-slot:cell(selected)="{ rowSelected }">
<template v-if="rowSelected">
<span aria-hidden="true">&check;</span>
<span class="sr-only">Selected</span>
</template>
<template v-else>
<span aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;</span>
<span class="sr-only">Not selected</span>
</template>
</template>
</b-table>
<p>
<b-button size="sm" @click="selectAllRows">Select all</b-button>
<b-button size="sm" @click="clearSelected">Clear selected</b-button>
<b-button size="sm" @click="selectThirdRow">Select 3rd row</b-button>
<b-button size="sm" @click="unselectThirdRow">Unselect 3rd row</b-button>
</p>
<p>
Selected Rows:<br>
{{ selected }}
</p>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
modes: ['multi', 'single', 'range'],
fields: ['selected', 'isActive', 'age', 'first_name', 'last_name'],
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ isActive: false, age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
],
selectMode: 'multi',
selected: []
}
},
methods: {
onRowSelected(items) {
this.selected = items
},
selectAllRows() {
this.$refs.selectableTable.selectAllRows()
},
clearSelected() {
this.$refs.selectableTable.clearSelected()
},
selectThirdRow() {
this.$refs.selectableTable.selectRow(2)
},
unselectThirdRow() {
this.$refs.selectableTable.unselectRow(2)
}
}
}
</script>
Table body transition support
Vue transitions and animations are optionally supported on the <tbody>
element via the use of Vue's <transition-group>
component internally. Three props are available for transitions support (all three default to undefined):
Prop | Type | Description |
tbody-transition-props | Object | Object of transition-group properties |
tbody-transition-handlers | Object | Object of transition-group event handlers |
primary-key | String | String specifying the field to use as a unique row key (required) |
To enable transitions you need to specify tbody-transition-props
and/or tbody-transition-handlers
, and must specify which field key to use as a unique key via the primary-key
prop. Your data must have a column (specified by setting the primary-key
prop to the name of the field) that has a unique value per row in order for transitions to work properly. The primary-key
field's value can either be a unique string or number. The field specified does not need to appear in the rendered table output, but it must exist in each row of your items data.
You must also provide CSS to handle your transitions (if using CSS transitions) in your project.
For more information of Vue's list rendering transitions, see the Vue JS official docs.
In the example below, we have used the following custom CSS:
table#table-transition-example .flip-list-move {
transition: transform 1s;
}
<template>
<div>
<b-table
id="table-transition-example"
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
striped
small
primary-key="a"
:tbody-transition-props="transProps"
></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
transProps: {
name: 'flip-list'
},
items: [
{ a: 2, b: 'Two', c: 'Moose' },
{ a: 1, b: 'Three', c: 'Dog' },
{ a: 3, b: 'Four', c: 'Cat' },
{ a: 4, b: 'One', c: 'Mouse' }
],
fields: [
{ key: 'a', sortable: true },
{ key: 'b', sortable: true },
{ key: 'c', sortable: true }
]
}
}
}
</script>
v-model
binding
If you bind a variable to the v-model
prop, the contents of this variable will be the currently displayed item records (zero based index, up to page-size
- 1). This variable (the value
prop) should usually be treated as readonly.
The records within the v-model
are a filtered/paginated shallow copy of items
, and hence any changes to a record's properties in the v-model
will be reflected in the original items
array (except when items
is set to a provider function). Deleting a record from the v-model
array will not remove the record from the original items array nor will it remove it from the displayed rows.
Note: Do not bind any value directly to the value
prop. Use the v-model
binding.
Sorting
As mentioned in the Fields section above, you can make columns sortable in <b-table>
. Clicking on a sortable column header will sort the column in ascending direction (smallest first), while clicking on it again will switch the direction of sorting to descending (largest first). Clicking on a non-sortable column will clear the sorting (the prop no-sort-reset
can be used to disable this feature).
You can control which column is pre-sorted and the order of sorting (ascending or descending). To pre-specify the column to be sorted, set the sort-by
prop to the field's key. Set the sort direction by setting sort-desc
to either true
(for descending) or false
(for ascending, the default).
- Ascending: Items are sorted lowest to highest (i.e.
A
to Z
) and will be displayed with the lowest value in the first row with progressively higher values in the following rows. - Descending: Items are sorted highest to lowest (i.e.
Z
to A
) and will be displayed with the highest value in the first row with progressively lower values in the following rows.
The props sort-by
and sort-desc
can be turned into two-way (syncable) props by adding the .sync
modifier. Your bound variables will then be updated accordingly based on the current sort criteria. See the Vue docs for details on the .sync
prop modifier.
Setting sort-by
to a column that is not defined in the fields as sortable
will result in the table not being sorted.
When the prop foot-clone
is set, the footer headings will also allow sorting by clicking, even if you have custom formatted footer field headers. To disable the sort icons and sorting via heading clicks in the footer, set the no-footer-sorting
prop to true.
<template>
<div>
<b-table
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
:sort-by.sync="sortBy"
:sort-desc.sync="sortDesc"
responsive="sm"
></b-table>
<div>
Sorting By: <b>{{ sortBy }}</b>, Sort Direction:
<b>{{ sortDesc ? 'Descending' : 'Ascending' }}</b>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
sortBy: 'age',
sortDesc: false,
fields: [
{ key: 'last_name', sortable: true },
{ key: 'first_name', sortable: true },
{ key: 'age', sortable: true },
{ key: 'isActive', sortable: false }
],
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ isActive: false, age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Sort icon alignment
By default the sorting icons appear right aligned in the header cell. You can change the icons to be left aligned by setting the prop sort-icon-left
on <b-table>
.
<template>
<div>
<b-table
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
:sort-by.sync="sortBy"
:sort-desc.sync="sortDesc"
sort-icon-left
responsive="sm"
></b-table>
<div>
Sorting By: <b>{{ sortBy }}</b>, Sort Direction:
<b>{{ sortDesc ? 'Descending' : 'Ascending' }}</b>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
sortBy: 'age',
sortDesc: false,
fields: [
{ key: 'last_name', sortable: true },
{ key: 'first_name', sortable: true },
{ key: 'age', sortable: true },
{ key: 'isActive', sortable: false }
],
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, first_name: 'Dickerson', last_name: 'Macdonald' },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, first_name: 'Larsen', last_name: 'Shaw' },
{ isActive: false, age: 89, first_name: 'Geneva', last_name: 'Wilson' },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, first_name: 'Jami', last_name: 'Carney' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
Customizing the sort icons
The sorting icons are generated via the use of SVG background images. The icons can be altered by updating BootstrapVue's SASS/SCSS variables and recompiling the SCSS source code. Refer to the theming section for details on customizing Bootstrap and BootstrapVue's generated CSS.
Sort-compare routine
The internal built-in default sort-compare
function sorts the specified field key
based on the data in the underlying record object (or by formatted value if a field has a formatter function, and the field has its sortByFormatted
property is set to true
). The field value is first stringified if it is an object and then sorted.
Notes:
- The built-in
sort-compare
routine cannot sort based on the custom rendering of the field data: scoped slots are used only for _presentation only_, and do not affect the underlying data. - Fields that have a
formatter
function (virtual field or regular field) can be sorted by the value returned via the formatter function if the field property sortByFormatted
is set to true
. Optionally you can pass a formatter function reference to sortByFormatted
to format the value before sorting. The default is false
which will sort by the original field value. This is only applicable for the built-in sort-compare routine. - By default, the internal sorting routine will sort
null
, undefined
, or empty string values first (less than any other values). To sort so that null
, undefined
or empty string values appear last (greater than any other value), set the sort-null-last
prop to true
.
For customizing the sort-compare handling, refer to the Custom sort-compare routine section below.
Internal sorting and locale handling
The internal sort-compare routine uses String.prototype.localeCompare()
for comparing the stringified column value (if values being compared are not both Number
or both Date
types). The browser native localeCompare()
method accepts a locale
string (or array of locale strings) and an options
object for controlling how strings are sorted. The default options are { numeric: true }
, and the locale is undefined
(which uses the browser default locale).
You can change the locale (or locales) via the sort-compare-locale
prop to set the locale(s) for sorting, as well as pass sort options via the sort-compare-options
prop.
The sort-compare-locale
prop defaults to undefined
, which uses the browser (or Node.js runtime) default locale. The prop sort-compare-locale
can either accept a BCP 47 language tag string or an array of such tags. For more details on locales, please see Locale identification and negotiation on MDN.
The sort-compare-options
prop accepts an object containing any of the following properties:
localeMatcher
: The locale matching algorithm to use. Possible values are 'lookup'
and 'best fit'
. The default is 'best fit'
. For information about this option, see the MDN Intl page for details. sensitivity
: Which differences in the strings should lead to non-zero compare result values. Possible values are: 'base'
: Only strings that differ in base letters compare as unequal. Examples: a ≠ b
, a = á
, a = A
. 'accent'
: Only strings that differ in base letters or accents and other diacritic marks compare as unequal. Examples: a ≠ b
, a ≠ á
, a = A
. 'case'
: Only strings that differ in base letters or case compare as unequal. Examples: a ≠ b
, a = á
, a ≠ A
. 'variant'
: (default) Strings that differ in base letters, accents and other diacritic marks, or case compare as unequal. Other differences may also be taken into consideration. Examples: a ≠ b
, a ≠ á
, a ≠ A
.
ignorePunctuation
: Whether punctuation should be ignored. Possible values are true
and false
. The default is false
. numeric
: Whether numeric collation should be used, such that '1' < '2' < '10'
. Possible values are true
and false
. The default is false
. Note that implementations (browsers, runtimes) are not required to support this property, and therefore it might be ignored. caseFirst
: Whether upper case or lower case should sort first. Possible values are 'upper'
, 'lower'
, or 'false'
(use the locale's default). The default is 'false'
. Implementations are not required to support this property. 'usage'
: Always set to 'sort'
by <b-table>
Example 1: If you want to sort German words, set sort-compare-locale="de"
(in German, ä
sorts before z
) or Swedish set sort-compare-locale="sv"
(in Swedish, ä
sorts after z
)
Example 2: To compare numbers that are strings numerically, and to ignore case and accents:
<b-table :sort-compare-options="{ numeric: true, sensitivity: 'base' }" ...>
Notes:
Custom sort-compare routine
You can provide your own custom sort compare routine by passing a function reference to the prop sort-compare
. The sort-compare
routine is passed seven (7) arguments, of which the last 4 are optional:
- the first two arguments (
a
and b
) are the record objects for the rows being compared - the third argument is the field
key
being sorted on (sortBy
) - the fourth argument (
sortDesc
) is the order <b-table>
will be displaying the records (true
for descending, false
for ascending) - the fifth argument is a reference to the field's formatter function or the field's
filterByFormatted
value if it is a function reference. If not formatter is found this value will be undefined
. You will need to call this method to get the formatted field value: valA = formatter(a[key], key, a)
and valB = formatter(b[key], key, b)
, if you need to sort by the formatted value. This will be undefined
if the field's sortByFormatted
property is not true
or is not a formatter function _reference_, or the fields formatter function cannot be found. - the sixth argument is the value of the
sort-compare-options
prop (default is { numeric: true }
) - the seventh argument is the value of the
sort-compare-locale
prop (default is undefined
)
The sixth and seventh arguments can be used if you are using the String.prototype.localeCompare()
method to compare strings.
In most typical situations, you only need to use the first three arguments. The fourth argument - sorting direction - should not normally be used, as b-table
will handle the direction, and this value is typically only needed when special handling of how null
and/or undefined
values are sorted (i.e. sorting null
/undefined
first or last).
The routine should return either -1
(or a negative value) for a[key] < b[key]
, 0
for a[key] === b[key]
, or 1
(or a positive value) for a[key] > b[key]
.
Your custom sort-compare routine can also return null
or false
, to fall back to the built-in sort-compare routine for the particular key
. You can use this feature (i.e. by returning null
) to have your custom sort-compare routine handle only certain fields (keys) such as the special case of virtual (scoped slot) columns, and have the internal (built in) sort-compare handle all other fields.
The default sort-compare routine works similar to the following. Note the fourth argument (sorting direction) is not used in the sort comparison:
function sortCompare(aRow, bRow, key, sortDesc, formatter, compareOptions, compareLocale) {
const a = aRow[key]
const b = bRow[key]
if (
(typeof a === 'number' && typeof b === 'number') ||
(a instanceof Date && b instanceof Date)
) {
return a < b ? -1 : a > b ? 1 : 0
} else {
return toString(a).localeCompare(toString(b), compareLocale, compareOptions)
}
}
function toString(value) {
if (value === null || typeof value === 'undefined') {
return ''
} else if (value instanceof Object) {
return Object.keys(value)
.sort()
.map(key => toString(value[key]))
.join(' ')
} else {
return String(value)
}
}
Disable local sorting
If you want to handle sorting entirely in your app, you can disable the local sorting in <b-table>
by setting the prop no-local-sorting
to true, while still maintaining the sortable header functionality (via sort-changed
or context-changed
events as well as syncable props).
You can use the syncable props sort-by.sync
and sort-desc.sync
to detect changes in sorting column and direction.
Also, When a sortable column header (or footer) is clicked, the event sort-changed
will be emitted with a single argument containing the context object of <b-table>
. See the Detection of sorting change section below for details about the sort-changed event and the context object.
When no-local-sorting
is true, the sort-compare
prop has no effect.
Change initial sort direction
Control the order in which ascending and descending sorting is applied when a sortable column header is clicked, by using the sort-direction
prop. The default value 'asc'
applies ascending sort first (when a column is not currently sorted). To reverse the behavior and sort in descending direction first, set it to 'desc'
.
If you don't want the current sorting direction to change when clicking another sortable column header, set sort-direction
to 'last'
. This will maintain the sorting direction of the previously sorted column.
For individual column initial sort direction (which applies when the column transitions from unsorted to sorted), specify the property sortDirection
in fields
. See the Complete Example below for an example of using this feature.
Filtering
Filtering, when used, is applied by default to the original items array data. b-table
provides several options for how data is filtered.
It is currently not possible to filter based on result of formatting via scoped field slots.
Built in filtering
The item's row data values are stringified (see the sorting section above for how stringification is done) and the filter searches that stringified data (excluding any of the special properties that begin with an underscore '_'
). The stringification also, by default, includes any data not shown in the presented columns.
With the default built-in filter function, The filter
prop value can either be a string or a RegExp
object (regular expressions should not have the /g
global flag set).
If the stringified row contains the provided string value or matches the RegExp expression then it is included in the displayed results.
Set the filter
prop to null
or an empty string to clear the current filter.
Built in filtering options
There are several options for controlling what data the filter is applied against.
- The
filter-ignored-fields
prop accepts an array of top-level (immediate properties of the row data) field keys that should be ignored when filtering. - The
filter-included-fields
prop accepts an array of top-level (immediate properties of the row data) field keys that should used when filtering. All other field keys not included in this array will be ignored. This feature can be handy when you want to filter on specific columns. If the specified array is empty, then all fields are included, except those specified via the prop filter-ignored-fields
. If a field key is specified in both filter-ignored-fields
and filter-included-fields
, then filter-included-fields
takes precedence. - Normally,
<b-table>
filters based on the stringified record data. If the field has a formatter
function specified, you can optionally filter based on the result of the formatter by setting the field definition property filterByFormatted
to true
. If the field does not have a formatter function, this option is ignored. You can optionally pass a formatter function _reference_, to be used for filtering only, to the field definition property filterByFormatted
.
The props filter-ignored-fields
and filter-included-fields
, and the field definition property filterByFormatted
have no effect when using a custom filter function, or items provider based filtering.
Custom filter function
You can also use a custom filter function, by setting the prop filter-function
to a reference of custom filter test function. The filter function will be passed two arguments:
- the original item row record data object. Treat this argument as read-only.
- the content of the
filter
prop (could be a string, RegExp, array, or object)
The function should return true
if the record matches your criteria or false
if the record is to be filtered out.
For proper reactive updates to the displayed data, when not filtering you should set the filter
prop to null
or an empty string (and not an empty object or array). The filter function will not be called when the filter
prop is a falsey value.
The display of the empty-filter-text
relies on the truthiness of the filter
prop.
Filter events
When local filtering is applied, and the resultant number of items change, <b-table>
will emit the filtered
event with a two arguments:
- an array reference which is the complete list of items passing the filter routine. **Treat this argument as read-only.**
- the number of records that passed the filter test (the length of the first argument)
Setting the prop filter
to null or an empty string will clear local items filtering.
Debouncing filter criteria changes
deprecated in v2.1.0 Use the debounce
feature of <b-form-input>
instead.
If you have a text input tied to the filter
prop of <b-table>
, the filtering process will occur for each character typed by the user. With large items datasets, this process can take a while and may cause the text input to appear sluggish.
To help alleviate this type of situation, <b-table>
accepts a debounce timout value (in milliseconds) via the filter-debounce
prop. The default is 0
(milliseconds). When a value greater than 0
is provided, the filter will wait for that time before updating the table results. If the value of the filter
prop changes before this timeout expires, the filtering will be once again delayed until the debounce timeout expires.
When used, the suggested value of filter-debounce
should be in the range of 100
to 200
milliseconds, but other values may be more suitable for your use case.
The use of this prop can be beneficial when using provider filtering with items provider functions, to help reduce the number of calls to your back end API.
Filtering notes
See the Complete Example below for an example of using the filter
feature.
<b-table>
supports built in pagination of item data. You can control how many rows are displayed at a time by setting the per-page
prop to the maximum number of rows you would like displayed, and use the current-page
prop to specify which page to display (starting from page 1
). If you set current-page
to a value larger than the computed number of pages, then no rows will be shown.
You can use the <b-pagination>
component in conjunction with <b-table>
for providing control over pagination.
Setting per-page
to 0
(default) will disable the local items pagination feature.
Using items provider functions
As mentioned under the Items prop section, it is possible to use a function to provide the row data (items), by specifying a function reference via the items
prop.
The provider function is called with the following signature:
provider(ctx, [callback])
The ctx
is the context object associated with the table state, and contains the following five properties:
Property | Type | Description |
currentPage | Number | The current page number (starting from 1, the value of the current-page prop) |
perPage | Number | The maximum number of rows per page to display (the value of the per-page prop) |
filter | String or RegExp or Object | the value of the filter prop |
sortBy | String | The current column key being sorted, or an empty string if not sorting |
sortDesc | Boolean | The current sort direction (true for descending, false for ascending) |
apiUrl | String | the value provided to the api-url prop. null if none provided. |
The second argument callback
is an optional parameter for when using the callback asynchronous method.
Example: returning an array of data (synchronous):
function myProvider() {
let items = []
return items || []
}
Example: Using callback to return data (asynchronous):
function myProvider(ctx, callback) {
const params = '?page=' + ctx.currentPage + '&size=' + ctx.perPage
this.fetchData('/some/url' + params)
.then(data => {
const items = data.items
callback(items)
})
.catch(() => {
callback([])
})
return null
}
Example: Using a Promise to return data (asynchronous):
function myProvider(ctx) {
const promise = axios.get('/some/url?page=' + ctx.currentPage + '&size=' + ctx.perPage)
return promise.then(data => {
const items = data.items
return items || []
})
}
Automated table busy state
<b-table>
automatically tracks/controls its busy
state when items provider functions are used, however it also provides a busy
prop that can be used either to override the inner busy
state, or to monitor <b-pagination>
's current busy state in your application using the 2-way .sync
modifier.
Note: in order to allow <b-table>
fully track its busy
state, the custom items provider function should handle errors from data sources and return an empty array to <b-table>
.
Example: usage of busy state
<template>
<div>
<b-table
id="my-table"
:busy.sync="isBusy"
:items="myProvider"
:fields="fields"
...
></b-table>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data () {
return {
isBusy: false
}
}
methods: {
myProvider () {
let promise = axios.get('/some/url')
return promise.then((data) => {
const items = data.items
return(items)
}).catch(error => {
return []
})
}
}
}
</script>
Notes:
- If you manually place the table in the
busy
state, the items provider will not be called/refreshed until the busy
state has been set to false
. - All click related and hover events, and sort-changed events will not be emitted when in the
busy
state (either set automatically during provider update, or when manually set).
Provider paging, filtering, and sorting
By default, the items provider function is responsible for all paging, filtering, and sorting of the data, before passing it to b-table
for display.
You can disable provider paging, filtering, and sorting (individually) by setting the following b-table
prop(s) to true
:
Prop | Type | Default | Description |
no-provider-paging | Boolean | false | When true enables the use of b-table local data pagination |
no-provider-sorting | Boolean | false | When true enables the use of b-table local sorting |
no-provider-filtering | Boolean | false | When true enables the use of b-table local filtering |
When no-provider-paging
is false
(default), you should only return at maximum, perPage
number of records.
Notes:
<b-table>
needs reference to your pagination and filtering values in order to trigger the calling of the provider function. So be sure to bind to the per-page
, current-page
and filter
props on b-table
to trigger the provider update function call (unless you have the respective no-provider-*
prop set to true
). - The
no-local-sorting
prop has no effect when items
is a provider function. - When using provider filtering, you may find that setting the
debounce
prop on <b-form-input>
to a value greater than 100
ms will help minimize the number of calls to your back end API as the user types in the criteria.
Force refreshing of table data
You may also trigger the refresh of the provider function by emitting the event refresh::table
on $root
with the single argument being the id
of your b-table
. You must have a unique ID on your table for this to work.
this.$root.$emit('bv::refresh::table', 'my-table')
Or by calling the refresh()
method on the table reference
<div>
<b-table ref="table" ... ></b-table>
</div>
this.$refs.table.refresh()
Note: If the table is in the busy
state (i.e. a provider update is currently running), the refresh will wait until the current update is completed. If there is currently a refresh pending and a new refresh is requested, then only one refresh will occur.
Detection of sorting change
By listening on <b-table>
sort-changed
event, you can detect when the sorting key and direction have changed.
<div>
<b-table @sort-changed="sortingChanged" ... ></b-table>
</div>
The sort-changed
event provides a single argument of the table's current state context object. This context object has the same format as used by items provider functions.
export default {
methods: {
sortingChanged(ctx) {
}
}
}
You can also obtain the current sortBy and sortDesc values by using the :sort-by.sync
and :sort-desc.sync
two-way props respectively (see section Sorting above for details).
<div>
<b-table :sort-by.sync="mySortBy" :sort-desc.sync="mySortDesc" ... ></b-table>
</div>
Server side rendering
Special care must be taken when using server side rendering (SSR) and an items
provider function. Make sure you handle any special situations that may be needed server side when fetching your data!
When <b-table>
is mounted in the document, it will automatically trigger a provider update call.
Light-weight tables
<b-table-lite>
provides a great alternative to <b-table>
if you just need simple display of tabular data. The <b-table-lite>
component provides all of the styling and formatting features of <b-table>
(including row details and stacked support), while excluding the following features:
- Filtering
- Sorting
- Pagination
- Items provider support
- Selectable rows
- Busy table state and styling
- Fixed top and bottom rows
- Empty row support
Table lite as a plugin
The TablePlugin
includes <b-table-lite>
. For convenience, BootstrapVue also provides a TableLitePlugin
which installs only <b-table-lite>
. TableLitePlugin
is available as a top level named export.
Simple tables
The <b-table-simple>
component gives the user complete control over the rendering of the table content, while providing basic Bootstrap v4 table styling. <b-table-simple>
is a wrapper component around the <table>
element. Inside the component, via the default
slot, you can use any or all of the BootstrapVue table helper components: <b-thead>
, <b-tfoot>
, <b-tbody>
, <b-tr>
, <b-th>
, <b-td>
, and the HTML5 elements <caption>
, <colgroup>
and <col>
. Contrary to the component's name, one can create simple or complex table layouts with <b-table-simple>
.
<b-table-simple>
provides basic styling options via props: striped
, bordered
, borderless
, outlined
, small
, hover
, dark
, fixed
, responsive
and sticky-header
. Note that stacked
mode is available but requires some additional markup to generate the cell headings, as described in the Simple tables and stacked mode section below. Sticky columns are also supported, but also require a bit of additional markup to specify which columns are to be sticky. See below for more information on using sticky columns.
Since b-table-simple
is just a wrapper component, of which you will need to render content inside, it does not provide any of the advanced features of <b-table>
(i.e. row events, head events, sorting, pagination, filtering, foot-clone, items, fields, etc).
<div>
<b-table-simple hover small caption-top responsive>
<caption>Items sold in August, grouped by Country and City:</caption>
<colgroup><col><col></colgroup>
<colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup>
<colgroup><col><col></colgroup>
<b-thead head-variant="dark">
<b-tr>
<b-th colspan="2">Region</b-th>
<b-th colspan="3">Clothes</b-th>
<b-th colspan="2">Accessories</b-th>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th>Country</b-th>
<b-th>City</b-th>
<b-th>Trousers</b-th>
<b-th>Skirts</b-th>
<b-th>Dresses</b-th>
<b-th>Bracelets</b-th>
<b-th>Rings</b-th>
</b-tr>
</b-thead>
<b-tbody>
<b-tr>
<b-th rowspan="3">Belgium</b-th>
<b-th class="text-right">Antwerp</b-th>
<b-td>56</b-td>
<b-td>22</b-td>
<b-td>43</b-td>
<b-td variant="success">72</b-td>
<b-td>23</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th class="text-right">Gent</b-th>
<b-td>46</b-td>
<b-td variant="warning">18</b-td>
<b-td>50</b-td>
<b-td>61</b-td>
<b-td variant="danger">15</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th class="text-right">Brussels</b-th>
<b-td>51</b-td>
<b-td>27</b-td>
<b-td>38</b-td>
<b-td>69</b-td>
<b-td>28</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th rowspan="2">The Netherlands</b-th>
<b-th class="text-right">Amsterdam</b-th>
<b-td variant="success">89</b-td>
<b-td>34</b-td>
<b-td>69</b-td>
<b-td>85</b-td>
<b-td>38</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th class="text-right">Utrecht</b-th>
<b-td>80</b-td>
<b-td variant="danger">12</b-td>
<b-td>43</b-td>
<b-td>36</b-td>
<b-td variant="warning">19</b-td>
</b-tr>
</b-tbody>
<b-tfoot>
<b-tr>
<b-td colspan="7" variant="secondary" class="text-right">
Total Rows: <b>5</b>
</b-td>
</b-tr>
</b-tfoot>
</b-table-simple>
</div>
When in responsive
or sticky-header
mode, the <table>
element is wrapped inside a <div>
element. If you need to apply additional classes to the <table>
element, use the table-classes
prop.
Any additional attributes given to <b-table-simple>
will always be applied to the <table>
element.
Simple tables and stacked mode
A bit of additional markup is required on your <b-table-simple>
body cells when the table is in stacked mode. Specifically, BootstrapVue uses a special data attribute to create the cell's heading, of which you can supply to <b-td>
or <b-th>
via the stacked-heading
prop. Only plain strings are supported (not HTML markup), as we use the pseudo element ::before
and css content
property.
Here is the same table as above, set to be always stacked, which has the extra markup to handle stacked mode (specifically for generating the cell headings):
<div>
<b-table-simple hover small caption-top stacked>
<caption>Items sold in August, grouped by Country and City:</caption>
<colgroup><col><col></colgroup>
<colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup>
<colgroup><col><col></colgroup>
<b-thead head-variant="dark">
<b-tr>
<b-th colspan="2">Region</b-th>
<b-th colspan="3">Clothes</b-th>
<b-th colspan="2">Accessories</b-th>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th>Country</b-th>
<b-th>City</b-th>
<b-th>Trousers</b-th>
<b-th>Skirts</b-th>
<b-th>Dresses</b-th>
<b-th>Bracelets</b-th>
<b-th>Rings</b-th>
</b-tr>
</b-thead>
<b-tbody>
<b-tr>
<b-th rowspan="3" class="text-center">Belgium (3 Cities)</b-th>
<b-th stacked-heading="City" class="text-left">Antwerp</b-th>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Trousers">56</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Skirts">22</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Dresses">43</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Bracelets" variant="success">72</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Rings">23</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th stacked-heading="City">Gent</b-th>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Trousers">46</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Skirts" variant="warning">18</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Dresses">50</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Bracelets">61</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Rings" variant="danger">15</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th stacked-heading="City">Brussels</b-th>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Trousers">51</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Skirts">27</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Dresses">38</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Bracelets">69</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Rings">28</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th rowspan="2" class="text-center">The Netherlands (2 Cities)</b-th>
<b-th stacked-heading="City">Amsterdam</b-th>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Trousers" variant="success">89</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Skirts">34</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Dresses">69</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Bracelets">85</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Rings">38</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th stacked-heading="City">Utrecht</b-th>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Trousers">80</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Skirts" variant="danger">12</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Clothes: Dresses">43</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Bracelets">36</b-td>
<b-td stacked-heading="Accessories: Rings" variant="warning">19</b-td>
</b-tr>
</b-tbody>
<b-tfoot>
<b-tr>
<b-td colspan="7" variant="secondary" class="text-right">
Total Rows: <b>5</b>
</b-td>
</b-tr>
</b-tfoot>
</b-table-simple>
</div>
Like <b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
, table headers (<thead>
) and footers (<tfoot>
) are visually hidden when the table is visually stacked. If you need a header or footer, you can do so by creating an extra <b-tr>
inside of the <b-tbody>
component (or in a second <b-tbody>
component), and set a role of columnheader
on the child <b-th>
cells, and use Bootstrap v4 responsive display utility classes to hide the extra row (or <b-tbody>
) above a certain breakpoint when the table is no longer visually stacked (the breakpoint should match the stacked table breakpoint you have set), i.e. <b-tr class="d-md-none">
would hide the row on medium and wider screens, while <b-tbody class="d-md-none">
would hide the row group on medium and wider screens.
Note: stacked mode with <b-table-simple>
requires that you use the BootstrapVue table helper components. Use of the regular <tbody>
, <tr>
, <td>
and <th>
element tags will not work as expected, nor will they automatically apply any of the required accessibility attributes.
Simple tables and sticky columns
Sticky columns are supported with <b-table-simple>
, but you will need to set the sticky-column
prop on each table cell (in the thead
, tbody
, and tfoot
row groups) in the column that is to be sticky. For example:
<b-table-simple responsive>
<b-thead>
<b-tr>
<b-th sticky-column>Sticky Column Header</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 1</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 2</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 3</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 4</b-th>
</b-tr>
</b-thead>
<b-tbody>
<b-tr>
<b-th sticky-column>Sticky Column Row Header</b-th>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
</b-tr>
<b-tr>
<b-th sticky-column>Sticky Column Row Header</b-th>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
<b-td>Cell</b-td>
</b-tr>
</b-tbody>
<b-tfoot>
<b-tr>
<b-th sticky-column>Sticky Column Footer</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 1</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 2</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 3</b-th>
<b-th>Heading 4</b-th>
</b-tr>
</b-tfoot>
</b-table-responsive>
As with <b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
, sticky columns are not supported when the stacked
prop is set on <b-table-simple>
.
Table simple as a plugin
The TablePlugin
includes <b-table-simple>
and all of the helper components. For convenience, BootstrapVue also provides a TableSimplePlugin
which installs <b-table-simple>
and all of the helper components. TableSimplePlugin
is available as a top level named export.
Table helper components
BootstrapVue provides additional helper child components when using <b-table-simple>
, or the named slots top-row
, bottom-row
, thead-top
, and custom-foot
(all of which accept table child elements). The helper components are as follows:
b-tbody
(<b-table-simple>
only) b-thead
(<b-table-simple>
only) b-tfoot
(<b-table-simple>
only) b-tr
b-td
b-th
These components are optimized to handle converting variants to the appropriate classes (such as handling table dark
mode), and automatically applying certain accessibility attributes (i.e. role
s and scope
s). They also can generate the stacked table, and sticky header and column, markup. Components <b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
use these helper components internally.
In the Simple tables example, we are using the helper components <b-thead>
, <b-tbody>
, <b-tr>
, <b-th>
, <b-tr>
and <b-tfoot>
. While you can use regular table child elements (i.e. <tbody>
, <tr>
, <td>
, etc) within <b-table-simple>
, and the named slots top-row
, bottom-row
, and thead-top
, it is recommended to use these BootstrapVue table <b-t*>
helper components. Note that there are no helper components for <caption>
, <colgroup>
or <col>
, so you may these three HTML5 elements directly in <b-table-simple>
.
- Table helper components
<b-tr>
, <b-td>
and <b-th>
all accept a variant
prop, which will apply one of the Bootstrap theme colors (custom theme colors are supported via theming.) and will automatically adjust to use the correct variant class based on the table's dark
mode. - The helper components
<b-thead>
, <b-tfoot>
accept a head-variant
and foot-variant
prop respectively. Supported values are 'dark'
, 'light'
or null
(null
uses the default table background). These variants also control the text color (light text for 'dark'
variant, and dark text for the 'light'
variant). - Accessibility attributes
role
and scope
are automatically set on <b-th>
and <b-td>
components based on their location (thead, tbody, or tfoot) and their rowspan
or colspan
props. You can override the automatic scope
and role
values by setting the appropriate attribute on the helper component. - For
<b-tbody>
, <b-thead>
, and <b-tfoot>
helper components, the appropriate default role
of 'rowgroup'
will be applied, unless you override the role by supplying a role
attribute. - For the
<b-tr>
helper component, the appropriate default role
of 'row'
will be applied, unless you override the role by supplying a role
attribute. <b-tr>
does not add a scope
. - The
<b-tbody>
element supports rendering a Vue <transition-group>
when either, or both, of the tbody-transition-props
and tbody-transition-handlers
props are used. See the Table body transition support section for more details.
Accessibility
The <b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
components, when using specific features, will attempt to provide the best accessibility markup possible.
When using <b-table-simple>
with the helper table components, elements will have the appropriate roles applied by default, of which you can optionally override. When using click handlers on the <b-table-simple>
helper components, you will need to apply appropriate aria-*
attributes, and set tabindex="0"
to make the click actions accessible to screen reader and keyboard-only users. You should also listen for @keydown.enter.prevent
to handle users pressing Enter to trigger your click on cells or rows (required for accessibility for keyboard-only users).
Heading accessibility
When a column (field) is sortable (<b-table>
only) or there is a head-clicked
listener registered (<b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
), the header (and footer) <th>
cells will be placed into the document tab sequence (via tabindex="0"
) for accessibility by keyboard-only and screen reader users, so that the user may trigger a click (by pressing Enter on the header cells.
Data row accessibility
When the table is in selectable
mode (<b-table>
only, and prop no-select-on-click
is not set), or if there is a row-clicked
event listener registered (<b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
), all data item rows (<tr>
elements) will be placed into the document tab sequence (via tabindex="0"
) to allow keyboard-only and screen reader users the ability to click the rows by pressing Enter or Space.
When the table items rows are placed in the document tab sequence (<b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
), they will also support basic keyboard navigation when focused:
- Down will move to the next row
- Up will move to the previous row
- End or Down+Shift will move to the last row
- Home or Up+Shift will move to the first row
- Enter or Space to click the row.
Row event accessibility
Note the following row based events/actions (available with <b-table>
and <b-table-lite>
) are not considered accessible, and should only be used if the functionality is non critical or can be provided via other means:
row-dblclicked
row-contextmenu
row-hovered
row-unhovered
row-middle-clicked
Note that the row-middle-clicked
event is not supported in all browsers (i.e. IE, Safari and most mobile browsers). When listening for row-middle-clicked
events originating on elements that do not support input or navigation, you will often want to explicitly prevent other default actions mapped to the down action of the middle mouse button. On Windows this is usually autoscroll, and on macOS and Linux this is usually clipboard paste. This can be done by preventing the default behaviour of the mousedown
or pointerdown
event.
Additionally, you may need to avoid opening a default system or browser context menu after a right click. Due to timing differences between operating systems, this too is not a preventable default behaviour of row-middle-clicked
. Instead, this can be done by preventing the default behaviour of the row-contextmenu
event.
It is recommended you test your app in as many browser and device variants as possible to ensure your app handles the various inconsistencies with events.
Complete example
<template>
<b-container fluid>
<b-row>
<b-col lg="6" class="my-1">
<b-form-group
label="Sort"
label-cols-sm="3"
label-align-sm="right"
label-size="sm"
label-for="sortBySelect"
class="mb-0"
>
<b-input-group size="sm">
<b-form-select v-model="sortBy" id="sortBySelect" :options="sortOptions" class="w-75">
<template v-slot:first>
<option value="">-- none --</option>
</template>
</b-form-select>
<b-form-select v-model="sortDesc" size="sm" :disabled="!sortBy" class="w-25">
<option :value="false">Asc</option>
<option :value="true">Desc</option>
</b-form-select>
</b-input-group>
</b-form-group>
</b-col>
<b-col lg="6" class="my-1">
<b-form-group
label="Initial sort"
label-cols-sm="3"
label-align-sm="right"
label-size="sm"
label-for="initialSortSelect"
class="mb-0"
>
<b-form-select
v-model="sortDirection"
id="initialSortSelect"
size="sm"
:options="['asc', 'desc', 'last']"
></b-form-select>
</b-form-group>
</b-col>
<b-col lg="6" class="my-1">
<b-form-group
label="Filter"
label-cols-sm="3"
label-align-sm="right"
label-size="sm"
label-for="filterInput"
class="mb-0"
>
<b-input-group size="sm">
<b-form-input
v-model="filter"
type="search"
id="filterInput"
placeholder="Type to Search"
></b-form-input>
<b-input-group-append>
<b-button :disabled="!filter" @click="filter = ''">Clear</b-button>
</b-input-group-append>
</b-input-group>
</b-form-group>
</b-col>
<b-col lg="6" class="my-1">
<b-form-group
label="Filter On"
label-cols-sm="3"
label-align-sm="right"
label-size="sm"
description="Leave all unchecked to filter on all data"
class="mb-0">
<b-form-checkbox-group v-model="filterOn" class="mt-1">
<b-form-checkbox value="name">Name</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox value="age">Age</b-form-checkbox>
<b-form-checkbox value="isActive">Active</b-form-checkbox>
</b-form-checkbox-group>
</b-form-group>
</b-col>
<b-col sm="5" md="6" class="my-1">
<b-form-group
label="Per page"
label-cols-sm="6"
label-cols-md="4"
label-cols-lg="3"
label-align-sm="right"
label-size="sm"
label-for="perPageSelect"
class="mb-0"
>
<b-form-select
v-model="perPage"
id="perPageSelect"
size="sm"
:options="pageOptions"
></b-form-select>
</b-form-group>
</b-col>
<b-col sm="7" md="6" class="my-1">
<b-pagination
v-model="currentPage"
:total-rows="totalRows"
:per-page="perPage"
align="fill"
size="sm"
class="my-0"
></b-pagination>
</b-col>
</b-row>
<b-table
show-empty
small
stacked="md"
:items="items"
:fields="fields"
:current-page="currentPage"
:per-page="perPage"
:filter="filter"
:filterIncludedFields="filterOn"
:sort-by.sync="sortBy"
:sort-desc.sync="sortDesc"
:sort-direction="sortDirection"
@filtered="onFiltered"
>
<template v-slot:cell(name)="row">
{{ row.value.first }} {{ row.value.last }}
</template>
<template v-slot:cell(actions)="row">
<b-button size="sm" @click="info(row.item, row.index, $event.target)" class="mr-1">
Info modal
</b-button>
<b-button size="sm" @click="row.toggleDetails">
{{ row.detailsShowing ? 'Hide' : 'Show' }} Details
</b-button>
</template>
<template v-slot:row-details="row">
<b-card>
<ul>
<li v-for="(value, key) in row.item" :key="key">{{ key }}: {{ value }}</li>
</ul>
</b-card>
</template>
</b-table>
<b-modal :id="infoModal.id" :title="infoModal.title" ok-only @hide="resetInfoModal">
<pre>{{ infoModal.content }}</pre>
</b-modal>
</b-container>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
items: [
{ isActive: true, age: 40, name: { first: 'Dickerson', last: 'Macdonald' } },
{ isActive: false, age: 21, name: { first: 'Larsen', last: 'Shaw' } },
{
isActive: false,
age: 9,
name: { first: 'Mini', last: 'Navarro' },
_rowVariant: 'success'
},
{ isActive: false, age: 89, name: { first: 'Geneva', last: 'Wilson' } },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, name: { first: 'Jami', last: 'Carney' } },
{ isActive: false, age: 27, name: { first: 'Essie', last: 'Dunlap' } },
{ isActive: true, age: 40, name: { first: 'Thor', last: 'Macdonald' } },
{
isActive: true,
age: 87,
name: { first: 'Larsen', last: 'Shaw' },
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},
{ isActive: false, age: 26, name: { first: 'Mitzi', last: 'Navarro' } },
{ isActive: false, age: 22, name: { first: 'Genevieve', last: 'Wilson' } },
{ isActive: true, age: 38, name: { first: 'John', last: 'Carney' } },
{ isActive: false, age: 29, name: { first: 'Dick', last: 'Dunlap' } }
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{ key: 'name', label: 'Person Full name', sortable: true, sortDirection: 'desc' },
{ key: 'age', label: 'Person age', sortable: true, class: 'text-center' },
{
key: 'isActive',
label: 'is Active',
formatter: (value, key, item) => {
return value ? 'Yes' : 'No'
},
sortable: true,
sortByFormatted: true,
filterByFormatted: true
},
{ key: 'actions', label: 'Actions' }
],
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currentPage: 1,
perPage: 5,
pageOptions: [5, 10, 15],
sortBy: '',
sortDesc: false,
sortDirection: 'asc',
filter: null,
filterOn: [],
infoModal: {
id: 'info-modal',
title: '',
content: ''
}
}
},
computed: {
sortOptions() {
return this.fields
.filter(f => f.sortable)
.map(f => {
return { text: f.label, value: f.key }
})
}
},
mounted() {
this.totalRows = this.items.length
},
methods: {
info(item, index, button) {
this.infoModal.title = `Row index: ${index}`
this.infoModal.content = JSON.stringify(item, null, 2)
this.$root.$emit('bv::show::modal', this.infoModal.id, button)
},
resetInfoModal() {
this.infoModal.title = ''
this.infoModal.content = ''
},
onFiltered(filteredItems) {
this.totalRows = filteredItems.length
this.currentPage = 1
}
}
}
</script>